Posted on 09/20/2010 5:13:59 AM PDT by maggief
For much of the early part of the year, Sen. Lindsey Graham and the White House were locked in heated negotiations over legislation that could close the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, move some of the war-on-terror prisoners there to the U.S. mainland and create a system to detain Al Qaeda members captured later.
The talks were so intense that they spurred suspicion on both the right and the left — and contributed to the South Carolina Republican’s status as White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s most frequent visitor among Republican lawmakers.
“I thought we were close to getting a deal,” Graham told POLITICO last week. “I had some meetings where I walked out of the White House and said, ‘This is great.’ These were better meetings than I ever had with the Bush administration.”
But sometime around May, according to Graham, the line of communication with the White House shut down.
“It went completely dead,” Graham said. “Like it got hit by a Predator drone.”
The breakdown, however, could leave the Obama administration with even less of a chance to resolve key issues, particularly if Republicans make substantial gains or retake either chamber — or both chambers — of Congress. Graham is viewed as a moderate willing to negotiate, but the current slate of GOP candidates, influenced by the tea party, have tacked hard right and probably would be less willing to open a dialogue with the White House.
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Lindsey hype
Hopefully Graham will be viewed as a moderate that is gone after the next election. He should be a prime Tea Party target.
yeah Gramnesty wanted to know just how far over a good bow was
Breathless handwringer alert.
This could be because the White House is brain dead.
With DeMint getting all the press the last week, incljuding a ton of exposure this weekend, is Graham feeling left-out?
Aww...is poor little Lindsey not getting any more invites to the White House? I feel really sad for him and all those terrorist who will now have to remain at Gitmo.
You stay classy, Senator Graham.
So he wanted President Bush to close Gitmo and he refused.
Next up, a$$ki$$ing the appeaser.
Graham is loathsome.
Shouldn’t that read: “Graham is a shameless, feckless poltroon who is willing to grovel”?
Better use all the numbers in your Blackberry to get your name in the papers, Sen. Eddie Haskell, because you are #1 on the RINO target list.
Someday, soon we hope, Graham will appear to most of us as a specter generated by an undigested particle of chopped liver.
Well he [Graham] is the Pride of South Carolina.
Don’t worry about him being reelected. When election times comes, he, like John Mc Cain, will say the right things and will be shooed in again. Kinda likwe father, like son.
...maybe it’s because they found out your a insider spy Lindsay....(spread the rumor)...*grins*...paranoia reigns supreme.
That is because Bush did not like scumbags.
you’re sooooooooo bad (g)
I guess so.
He’s unhinged ...
“There’s going to be an attack. That’s going to be the impetus. That’s going to be what it takes to get Congress and the administration talking; we have to get hit again,” the senator said, suggesting that passing a bill before that happens might be more reasonable than what would come afterward.
“If there is a successful attack, there is going to be a real violent reaction in the Congress, where we will react more emotionally than thoughtfully,” Graham said.
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